The last 48 hours have included some minor Web development on side projects, goofing around with the Roku player, a hockey game, tweaks to some posters for church, decorating the church for Christmas and capped off by yet another hockey game. Not a bad way to close out the Thanksgiving holiday. Tomorrow I might decide to do something about the trunk of Christmas decorations on our living room floor.
One thing that has been keeping Samantha and I at least marginally entertained is foursquare, a popular social app for smart phones that recently opened to Nashville. It is not so much a game as is a notification platform for you to share your whereabouts with your friends, much the way that some will use Twitter to announce when they are out in public. The "fun" component comes from a scoring system that rewards you for visiting multiple places in an evening and will declare you "mayor" of a particular location if you are its most frequent visitor. For leading what some have dared to call "boring" lives, Samantha and I have managed to pile up the points for the Nashville leader board.
There are dozens of concerns about privacy, "big brother", etc. about having an app that does that effectively tracks your whereabouts. I am not too concerned with it as long as it only updates when I tell it to and only shares the details with my approved list. Over-sharing can be an issue, though. After all, who really cares if you are now the mayor-elect of your local Exxon station? Only the guy guy who comes along and unseats you. That would probably be this guy.